0:00:00 > 0:00:03is imminent and the only airport on the island is closed.
0:00:18 > 0:00:22Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be
0:00:22 > 0:00:23bringing us tomorrow.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26With me are the deputy head of sport at The Sun,
0:00:26 > 0:00:26Martin Lipton,
0:00:26 > 0:00:28and the political commentator, Jane Merrick.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29Tomorrow's front pages, starting with
0:00:29 > 0:00:32the I, picking up on disagreements over future Irish border
0:00:32 > 0:00:37arrangements which, the paper says, could derail Brexit plans.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40The Financial Times reports on two large pharmaceutical investments
0:00:40 > 0:00:42into the UK, providing a boost to Theresa May's vision
0:00:42 > 0:00:44for post-Brexit Britain.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47The Metro reports on the stolen car which crashed, killing five people,
0:00:47 > 0:00:50including two schoolboys.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53The Telegraph claims that a security review will recommend prioritising
0:00:53 > 0:00:59investment in cyber security, rather than the traditional armed forces.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02The Times runs with an investigation into thousands of children that
0:01:02 > 0:01:06are being used by criminal gangs as drugs runners.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08The Guardian leads with a report claiming that patients' lives
0:01:08 > 0:01:11are being put at risk as inexperienced doctors
0:01:11 > 0:01:15are being left to run A&E units.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19The Mirror reports on claims that Russian cyber units are spreading
0:01:19 > 0:01:21false information about flu jabs in the UK.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25And the Express says that Britain should brace for a month of icy
0:01:25 > 0:01:32weather in the run-up to Christmas.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36Let's begin with the times and an investigation that has been running.
0:01:36 > 0:01:41The headline, thousands of children groomed as drug mules on a huge
0:01:41 > 0:01:48scale.This is a pretty horrendous story. Genuinely chilling. And
0:01:48 > 0:01:54terrifying, I have to say. The suggestion in this story is the
0:01:54 > 0:01:59criminal gangs are using children as drug runners, grooming children as
0:01:59 > 0:02:06young as 12. The National crime agency involved here, and it has
0:02:06 > 0:02:10been dubbed the county line struck with urban gangs moving the drug
0:02:10 > 0:02:15between the inner-city and out-of-town locations, and it sounds
0:02:15 > 0:02:19like an absolutely horrendous situation which the police are now
0:02:19 > 0:02:27trying to counteract. Children being basically sucked into helping these
0:02:27 > 0:02:36drug gangs across the country all over the place, from coast to coast.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40And the approach to it now is to get at the gangs by using human
0:02:40 > 0:02:46trafficking and slavery legislation to impose harsher penalties because
0:02:46 > 0:02:53they are much greater punishments, maximum sentences.They using
0:02:53 > 0:02:56children because if they get caught with drugs on the assumption would
0:02:56 > 0:03:00be they are treated as a minor. Exactly. This is the appalling
0:03:00 > 0:03:04thing, they the most vulnerable children in the country, a lot of
0:03:04 > 0:03:10them are in care medicine as 12, as you say, and it is appalling and a
0:03:10 > 0:03:15one scale it is a similar technique that is using in Rochdale and
0:03:15 > 0:03:18rubber, the grooming scandal there, they are being groomed to do this
0:03:18 > 0:03:25but once again, these children, what is the care system doing? How are
0:03:25 > 0:03:29these children being allowed to be taken in this way? I think it is an
0:03:29 > 0:03:33important investigation into what is an appalling operation on a massive
0:03:33 > 0:03:39scale.And the way they get them to actually comply is through some
0:03:39 > 0:03:47really appalling violence.Pretty graphic, you can read this. They
0:03:47 > 0:03:50include kidnapped, torture, severe physical attacks, threats to rape,
0:03:50 > 0:04:00and kill. The most vile use of live Rich on young vulnerable people. It
0:04:00 > 0:04:07is utterly despicable. This is the first time I've seen this, it has
0:04:07 > 0:04:12come out of the blue, I think. And I think it will rumble through for a
0:04:12 > 0:04:17period of time.It is really worrying. The Guardian, health
0:04:17 > 0:04:21stories, safety fears as junior doctors are left to run A&E.I think
0:04:21 > 0:04:27anybody who has had anyone who knows it has been a patient or a doctor
0:04:27 > 0:04:31even working in the NHS in the last few months will save the pressure is
0:04:31 > 0:04:35on the NHS are bigger than ever and it isn't about the money, it is the
0:04:35 > 0:04:39stuff also, and all sorts of things, at the story in the Guardian is that
0:04:39 > 0:04:44they are under such pressure to fill the gaps in the A&E departments
0:04:44 > 0:04:48which are the most critical parts of the whole system, that they are
0:04:48 > 0:04:52being thought of led by inexperienced young doc is. There is
0:04:52 > 0:04:56a case here, this is a warning by the head of the General medical
0:04:56 > 0:04:59Council and they are saying that examples here, a huge survey has
0:04:59 > 0:05:04taken place of how they have uncovered this, a survey of 55,000
0:05:04 > 0:05:07junior doctors, and this is quite a sort of regular occurrence, and a
0:05:07 > 0:05:13group of young doc is straight out of medical school in charge of A&E
0:05:13 > 0:05:16and left with decisions that are thought of literally life or death.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20I mean, it is really, really disturbing.Very little supervision,
0:05:20 > 0:05:25it says, being asked to work way beyond their competence.Is this not
0:05:25 > 0:05:29also part of the fact we have had this idea of masochism structured
0:05:29 > 0:05:32within medical industry where to prove that you are good enough to be
0:05:32 > 0:05:38a junior doctor you have to work 25 hours out of 24 on an eight days a
0:05:38 > 0:05:43week for 13 months of the year. Just to prove you are up to it.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45Superhuman efforts expected of people, weight above and beyond
0:05:45 > 0:05:53legitimate expectations. And you therefore... You have young doctors,
0:05:53 > 0:05:58and they are in their 20s, often just kids are asked to do things
0:05:58 > 0:06:03they are not capable of doing at that point. And obviously there is
0:06:03 > 0:06:06then a dangerous things going wrong. And of course you cannot just
0:06:06 > 0:06:13conjure up a new doc.It takes a few years. It does take a few years. The
0:06:13 > 0:06:20Daily Mail reveal cut-price ambulance crews since 1999 calls.--
0:06:20 > 0:06:28seemed on treble nine calls. This appears to be a similar sort of
0:06:28 > 0:06:34Genesis to the previous story in the Guardian where of necessity, you
0:06:34 > 0:06:38haven't got enough staff, people are slightly underqualified to be there
0:06:38 > 0:06:44and it hugely important roles, it says here we have the technicians
0:06:44 > 0:06:48look like paramedics in terms of the uniform that they are not quite the
0:06:48 > 0:06:51same, they have less training, fewer skills, five of the ten ambulance
0:06:51 > 0:06:54trust in England show they would dispatch these technicians to almost
0:06:54 > 0:07:01300,000 calls. Without paramedics last year, including 155,000 of the
0:07:01 > 0:07:04most serious radicals were patient's live were deemed to be in imminent
0:07:04 > 0:07:13danger. These are skills, but just slightly less skilled.But we know
0:07:13 > 0:07:16the care that you get in the first few minutes after having something
0:07:16 > 0:07:20like a heart attack and really make the difference between a full
0:07:20 > 0:07:25recovery or not.Or even surviving. This feeds into ambulance waiting
0:07:25 > 0:07:28times, and we have heard about ambulances queueing up outside A&E
0:07:28 > 0:07:32departments could they cannot get in because the response times, the
0:07:32 > 0:07:36pressures, it is the same thing and I want to say the work that
0:07:36 > 0:07:40paramedics and the health services do is amazing and I think the
0:07:40 > 0:07:43criticism isn't on them and obviously they are trying their
0:07:43 > 0:07:48best. It's a difficult situation. They are being asked to do this
0:07:48 > 0:07:50without the necessary qualifications, I think that is very
0:07:50 > 0:07:55worrying.No government could ever spend enough money on the NHS are
0:07:55 > 0:08:00what people expect it to deliver. But people also have an expectation
0:08:00 > 0:08:06that the service will be optimum. And not some optimum. Therein lies
0:08:06 > 0:08:12the significant issue.The I, rift with Dublin puts Brexit deal in
0:08:12 > 0:08:17danger. Very different expectations on each side about at what point the
0:08:17 > 0:08:23Irish border issue will be resolved. As it relates to the trade agreement
0:08:23 > 0:08:29that Britain wants.Actually, the hard border soft border issue has
0:08:29 > 0:08:33been rumbling on for months actually but it is probably the most
0:08:33 > 0:08:36important issue that hasn't really been addressed properly by our
0:08:36 > 0:08:39government and actually Ireland are now stepping up, they are upping the
0:08:39 > 0:08:42ante on the issue, firstly because they have their own sort of
0:08:42 > 0:08:46political issues at home and a possible general election looming
0:08:46 > 0:08:51but also because there has been a deadline text to the middle of
0:08:51 > 0:08:54December to the first stage to be sorted out and the Irish border
0:08:54 > 0:08:59question is part of the first stage it is contingent on that, and what
0:08:59 > 0:09:03Ireland is asking for is a sort of assurance that they will not be a
0:09:03 > 0:09:06hard border which would equate to disaster to the peace process
0:09:06 > 0:09:10without moving onto the next, they will veto any steps for a hard
0:09:10 > 0:09:15border before they, talks can move forward. So Theresa May and David
0:09:15 > 0:09:18Davis are in a difficult situation of how they move the talks forward
0:09:18 > 0:09:23and Brexit is just stuck in the mud. Liam Fox saying it has to happen the
0:09:23 > 0:09:26other way around, first bought out the trade deal and then we will
0:09:26 > 0:09:30decide what the border needs to be. The problem we have here is because
0:09:30 > 0:09:35of this desperate wish on behalf and I think everybody, even those do not
0:09:35 > 0:09:39support Brexit, for it to be a success, they are trying to expedite
0:09:39 > 0:09:45things through without them being seen properly in place. " From Liam
0:09:45 > 0:09:49Fox in the Telegraph is we don't want there to be a hard border. But
0:09:49 > 0:09:54the UK is going to be leaving the customs union and the single market.
0:09:54 > 0:09:59Well, if you do that, there is probably going to be a hard border.
0:09:59 > 0:10:03Unless you have it in the Irish Sea and then that is of concern to the
0:10:03 > 0:10:11unions.And you know, they are still keeping this government in place at
0:10:11 > 0:10:14the moment, in particular you know we have the schisms between Tory
0:10:14 > 0:10:20party over Brexit, between the Ken Klark Quinn or whatever, but it have
0:10:20 > 0:10:24to be that big and there is a minority legislation to put the
0:10:24 > 0:10:29administration down, there is all sorts of things that are going on
0:10:29 > 0:10:33and we are in a ridiculously narrow timeframe for this to be sorted out,
0:10:33 > 0:10:38we are looking at leaving the EU effectively in March 2019 we are
0:10:38 > 0:10:41talking about deadlines being this time next year. That isn't very
0:10:41 > 0:10:45long. We have wasted six months after the trigger of Article 50
0:10:45 > 0:10:50without getting anywhere.Let's look at the FT, Saudi crown prince
0:10:50 > 0:10:54delivers pledged of ridding the world of Islamist terrorism.It is a
0:10:54 > 0:10:58busy man at the moment! Having got rid of all of the corrupt people in
0:10:58 > 0:11:04Saudi Arabia...Or asking them to pay a few quick to make the charges
0:11:04 > 0:11:08go away.And put them in a nice hotel while they are at it, which is
0:11:08 > 0:11:11lovely, but had been someone who was the crown prince has decided people
0:11:11 > 0:11:18on Islington are some. So he's basically said we will take on the
0:11:18 > 0:11:22Shia because we are Sony and there are essentially old schisms between
0:11:22 > 0:11:30the two wings of Islam being played out on a geopolitical basis.
0:11:30 > 0:11:34Mohammed bin Salman. The Saudis do with the Iranians because they are
0:11:34 > 0:11:38sheer, that by the Qatari survey as it -- accused of bankrolling Islamic
0:11:38 > 0:11:42State they were grabbed the Sony states which is Iraq and Syria,
0:11:42 > 0:11:52Yemen and Saudi Arabia, and Prince Salman says we see its defeat in
0:11:52 > 0:11:55many countries, we are tracking down terrorism, we will pursue it until
0:11:55 > 0:11:59it is completely gone from the surface of the earth. It is rather
0:11:59 > 0:12:02apocalyptic language.But other politicians from other countries
0:12:02 > 0:12:07have said similar. If you push it down it pops up somewhere else.And
0:12:07 > 0:12:12of course it would be wonderful if we could get rid of that and as it
0:12:12 > 0:12:15says is the story, this is in the context of the absolute the
0:12:15 > 0:12:19horrendous attack on a mosque in Egypt on Friday. The worrying thing
0:12:19 > 0:12:25is he is taking a much more progressive stance, ' is, at home,
0:12:25 > 0:12:34but also in verities -- is Martin says, it will affect all of the
0:12:34 > 0:12:38satellite states and I think it must be very worrying, especially if you
0:12:38 > 0:12:46have Donald Trump and here's sort of Middle East International policies,
0:12:46 > 0:12:49it is very disconcerting, if Saudi Arabia will be suddenly more
0:12:49 > 0:12:53assertive on a regional level. Finally, the Daily Telegraph, armed
0:12:53 > 0:13:01forces lose out to cyber war. This is traditional personnel not getting
0:13:01 > 0:13:06the funding that they may be a hoping for.Yes, and the shortfall
0:13:06 > 0:13:13is £2 billion. This is the new twist on an old story. The MoD has always
0:13:13 > 0:13:17complained about not having enough money and the Defence Secretary has
0:13:17 > 0:13:22always had to ask for more money than the Chancellor. It actually, --
0:13:22 > 0:13:27but actually the National Security adviser is saying that the extra
0:13:27 > 0:13:31money is needed to tackle cyber terrorism which is true, there is a
0:13:31 > 0:13:35huge threat from Russia and elsewhere.Except if we are asking
0:13:35 > 0:13:39for trips elsewhere.This is the issue being raised and it is a big
0:13:39 > 0:13:43test, just a few weeks into the tenure of Gavin Williams, the new
0:13:43 > 0:13:50Defence Secretary, more interestingly, Michael Fallon of
0:13:50 > 0:13:53erstwhile Defence Secretary, has already said he will speak up about
0:13:53 > 0:13:56this. Didn't have the opportunity for the previous two years, you may
0:13:56 > 0:14:01ask, but there you go. There are issues and the funding of the
0:14:01 > 0:14:07defence forces is a big one.That is it for the papers. Please observe
0:14:07 > 0:14:10the conveyor belt. We got their path the midpoint of the circle.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13Don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online
0:14:14 > 0:14:15on the BBC News website.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18It's all there for you, seven days a week, at BBC.co.uk/papers,
0:14:18 > 0:14:21and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it
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0:14:22 > 0:14:30Thank you, Martin and Jane.